Title
Ordinance establishing provisions for the licensing and inspection of swimming facilities in the County.
Staff Summary
· The Lake County Health Department currently acts as an agent for the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) in the implementation of a Swimming Facilities Program.
· The Health Department inspects approximately 280 swimming facilities in Lake County on behalf of IDPH, but without reimbursement.
· Recent amendments to the Illinois Swimming Facilities Act allow local health departments to establish an ordinance and administer a Swimming Facility Program beginning January 1, 2013.
· With the adoption of the ordinance establishing a licensing and inspection program for swimming facilities, the County will now be entitled to recover costs associated with inspections and licensing.
· The proposed ordinance establishes administrative and procedural requirements for this program.
Body
WHEREAS, the Lake County Health Department is authorized to enforce local ordinances regulating Food Service Facilities, non-community water systems, and individual sewage disposal system professionals and now swimming facilities to protect the public's health; and
WHEREAS, Recent amendments to the Illinois Swimming Facilities Act allow local health departments to more feasibly establish an ordinance and administer a Swimming Facility Program, starting January 1, 2013.; and
WHEREAS, The proposed Swimming Facilities Ordinance establishes administrative and procedural requirements (licenses, inspections, violations, hearings, enforcement); and
WHEREAS, the Lake County Health Department has proposed amendments to Lake County Board of Health Ordinance Article XIII related to the assessment of fees for annually renewed licenses; and
WHEREAS, the Lake County Board of Health has approved the proposed Swimming Facility Ordinance; and
WHEREAS, the Lake County Board of Health has recommended that the proposed ordinance be added as a new article of the Lake County Board of Health Ordinance and be referred to the County Board for approval; and
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by this County Board of Lake County, Illinois that the proposed ordinance be added as a new article of the Lake County Board of Health Ordinance be approved and made a matter of Lake County law.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Lake County Clerk is hereby authorized to distribute certified copies of the amended Ordinance to the County Administrator, Comptroller, and the Executive Director of the Lake County Health Department.
DATED at Waukegan, Illinois, on January 15, 2013.
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